{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-appeal-tribunal-rules-2015/rule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-appeal-tribunal-rules-2015/rule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1648",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Appeal Tribunal Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-appeal-tribunal-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Governing principles",
  "text": "(1) The Tribunal shall seek to ensure that each case is dealt with justly and at proportionate cost.\n(2) Dealing with a case justly and at proportionate cost includes, so far as is practicable—\n(a) ensuring that the parties are on an equal footing;\n(b) saving expense;\n(c) dealing with the case in ways which are proportionate—\n(i) to the amount of money involved;\n(ii) to the importance of the case;\n(iii) to the complexity of the issues; and\n(iv) to the financial position of each party;\n(d) ensuring that it is dealt with expeditiously and fairly;\n(e) allotting to it an appropriate share of the Tribunal's resources, while taking into account the need to allot resources to other cases; and\n(f) enforcing compliance with these Rules, any practice direction issued under rule 115, and any order or direction of the Tribunal.\n(3) Each party's case shall be fully set out in writing as early as possible.\n(4) The Tribunal shall actively manage cases.\n(5) Active case management includes—\n(a) encouraging the parties to co-operate with each other in the conduct of the proceedings;\n(b) identification of and concentration on the main issues as early as possible;\n(c) fixing a target date for the main hearing as early as possible together with a timetable for the proceedings up to the main hearing, taking into account the nature of the case;\n(d) adopting fact-finding procedures that are most effective and appropriate for the case;\n(e) planning the structure of the main hearing in advance with a view to avoiding unnecessary oral evidence and argument; and\n(f) ensuring that the main hearing is conducted within defined time-limits.\n(6) The Tribunal may—\n(a) encourage and facilitate the use of an alternative dispute resolution procedure if the Tribunal considers that appropriate;\n(b) dispense with the need for the parties to attend any hearing; and\n(c) use technology actively to manage cases.\n(7) The parties (together with their representatives and any experts) are required to co-operate with the Tribunal to give effect to the principles in this rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1648/rule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:44.195082+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}